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A selection of the birds of Brazil and Mexico : the drawings (1841)

Author: Swainson, William, 1789-1855
Subject: Birds; Birds; Birds
Publisher: London : H.G. Bohn
Language: English
Call number: 5449791
Digitizing sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Book contributor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Collection: biodiversity; Harvard_University; americana

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Plates originally issued in 6 undated pts., within identical wrappers with pt. numbering holographed; last pt. numbered: 6/7. Title on wrappers: The ornithological drawings of William Swainson. The birds of Brazil. Publisher's statement on wrappers: London : Baldwin & Cradock [etc.]

Plates 67 and 68 misnumbered 72 and 73. Plates 69-78 unnumbered

"List of plates in Swainson's birds of Brazil and Mexico": p. [1]-4

Limited ed. of 175 copies

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